Tactics and duties for trench fighting
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Georges Bertrand
Capitaine, Chasseurs Alpins, de l’Armée de France
and
Oscar N. Solbert
Major, Corps of Engineers, U.S.A.
With Diagrams
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press
1918
Georges Etienne Bertrand
Oscar N. Solbert
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FOREWORD
CONTENTS
I. Specialists
II. Use of Specialists
III. Formations for Maneuvering this Resultant Company of Specialists
(Formation of the Platoon)
Successive Phases of the Organization
I. Plan of Defense
I. Definitions and Principles
II. Preliminary Dispositions for the Relief
III. Movement of the Relief
IV. Occupation of the Position
Different Kinds of Hostile Attacks
I. During the Preparation of the Hostile Attack
II. Defense of the First Line during a Hostile Attack
III. Fighting in the Interior of the Position
I. Preparation of the Attack
II. The Assault
III. Fighting in the Interior of the
V. Plan of Defense
VI. A Raid
V. Plan of Defense
I. Raids
II. Gas Warfare
III. Liquid Fire
IV. Mines
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